skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "All these IDE+- things may be nice-to-have but most soon become crutches, and then you cannot live without them, and only walk their walk, not yours."

... and?

Cars have automatic chokes, power assisted steering, hydraulic brakes, airbags, seatbelts, auto-dimming mirrors, self-running wipers, and it's fine. People argue that driving a stick-shift is more authentic but even they use syncromesh and clutches, they don't complain about how rubber tyres are for wimps and they use cartwheel-style metal bands wrapped around wood. They don't complain about having a differential instead of fixed drive to the axel.

A plain editor relies on terminals displaying multiple lines and updating them, filesystems for storage, an OS, a keyboard, ASCII or equivalent, maybe virtual memory management and TUIs and "then you can't live without them"! (scream emoji). But so what, it's not a problem, nobody seriously programs on punched cards because they don't want to become dependent on screens and keyboards.

You can make a case that artisan craftsman furniture is better quality than Ikea furniture but that's not because the artisan avoids factory machinery and uses hand tools, it's that the artisan spends more time and effort and takes longer (and needs to charge a lot more money). If you want to make the case that the artisan shouldn't use tape-measures, laser levels, power sanders, power saws, dust masks, wood glue, clamps, they should use a pencil behind the ear, a thumb's width and a handsaw because that's how they learn the True Nature of Wood(tm) then maybe you're just posturing and gatekeeping, or have some sort of Amish-style religion.

Calling power tools 'crutches' is so you can imply that people who use them have disabled themselves. Instead it's like saying people who commute 20 miles to work in a car are using the car as a crutch because you can just walk 5 hours each way and that's more real. It's embarassing that people are so desperately trying to claim both "I don't use power tools because power tools are for weak babies and I'm a STRONG MAN" and in the same breath "my editor can do everything an IDE can do, it isn't inferior, it is a power tool!".

> "Just turning off syntax coloring freaks recent developers.. even quite good ones.."

Just turning off thermometer and oven temperature controls freaks recent cooks ... even quite good ones. Are you going to make the case that restaurants would be better if all cooks worked like your grandma with a log fire who had learned the right feel of heat for bread, cake, or roasts? No? Because that's obviously silly? But what if those developers one day in 2025 find themselves on a monochrome screen, with no shades of gray and no underlines or italics and no option to buy an alternative, hah what then?! Isn't that obviously also silly? NB. you didn't remove paragraphs or punctuation or capital letters from your comment, maybe you're just not a good writer and need these assistive crutches?
This is one of the features I like most about F#, after some years experience with it. The project is structured with a specific file ordering, and there's no forward referencing. Similar within a file/module as well, most of the time.

So to understand a project, you start at the top and work your way down, you wont encounter anything you haven't come across yet as you go.

Ironically, this 'feature' so annoyed me when I first came across the language in 2015 or so, that I put it down after five minutes and forgot about it for years.
I’ve spent lots of time working in IDEs and lots of time working without them.

Generally I find IDEs more useful when I’m working with an unfamiliar code base or an unfamiliar language.

And that’s probably why there appears to be an age gap. It might be more down to comfort with the code rather than comfort with the tooling.
I've recently been trying to get IPEX working as well, apparently picking Ubuntu 24.04 was a mistake, because while things compile, everything fails at runtime. I've tried native, docker, different oneAPI versions, threw away a solid week of afternoons for nothing.

SYCL with llama.cpp is great though, at least at FP16 since it supports nothing else but even Arc iGPUs easily give 2-4x performance compared to CPU inference.

Intel should've just contributed to SYCL instead of trying to make their own thing and then forgot to keep maintaining it halfway through.
Ask HN: GPT o1 pro users, was it worth the $200/month subscription?
Would love to hear some real world experiences of o1 pro subscribers.
For young earth creationists, it is presumably far simpler; humans, as God’s favoured species, were simply given the best arses.
You had me at ehlo.
I live in Hamburg/Germany, where the CCC is hosted. It would feel strange to go to a German hacker congress in a German city and people would expect that everything is in English, first. It's organized by volunteers from various CCC groups from all over Germany and not by a commercial congress provider. The result may look like a "professional" congress, but that's the result by countless hours of volunteers enabling it. Generally there is much more to the congress, then the talks you can see online. It's a large gathering (> 14k participants with >2500k volunteer organizers) of people from all kinds of German grassroots hacker domains... with a lot of groups meeting there and presenting themselves. The Hamburg congress center, where it takes place, is not the largest location possible, but it currently seems to be the best mix of a congress center in the middle of a large German city with lots of rooms and space for all the groups.

Having CCC talks translated to and from English/... is fine, as it's actually done.

https://events.ccc.de/en/2024/11/26/call-for-interpreters-tr...

says:

> We interpret ALL talks in the three main halls and the two community stages live and in real-time. German talks are interpreted into English, and vice versa. Our work is transmitted live in the lecture halls, streamed to the Internet, and recordings are published on CCC sites and YouTube. We have another channel where we interpret into more languages, this is transmitted and published in the same way.
Baez and Egan are close friends, so don’t be surprised if you see it pop up.
"Uhhh that would involve a precision action with a tool specifically designed for precision actions" ;)
The author's native language is French, not English. The article doesn't sound AI-written at all.
Okay, now stick with it for a month.
American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop
You don't go through entire loops everywhere because if there isn't a match in the first two tables, you don't have to check the match with the third table.

It's better to check A x C before A x B if you know that A x C has less matching rows, because the final loop will be shorter.
Sorry to hear this. I urge you to seek some kind of help and support for this, because what you’re describing rings of depression, whatever the root cause (even if it feels obvious).
We should get rid of derivative lawsuits. There’s plenty of money sloshing around in the securities space. Lawyers can work with activist investors to pay their bills if there’s a real case. But the system of suing on behalf of shareholders that never asked you to represent them needs to go.
An AI system has reached human level on a test for general intelligence
[citation needed]

This is quite common in Blighty; there is no need for another ticket (outside some time restricted fares where the ability to stop is limited). Indeed, it can be nice hopping off at a new city for a mooch around if you have time to do so.

(Only slightly off-topic; We have the phenomenon of 'split tickets', where it can be cheaper to buy two tickets from A --> B --> C rather than one ticket from A --> C even when the train stops at B anyway! You don't even need to get out of the train at B if you don't wish to do so. Our ticketing system is a mess.)
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People just prompt themselves
I also find all the interruptions while you're on the plane itself tedious. Waiting for all the luggage wrangling, the safety briefing, the welcome from the crew, the message from the captain, the announcement about food or drinks, another message from the captain, various seatbelt-related announcements, something about duty free, and on and on. And they're all in that verbose style, like ChatGPT. Makes using any in-flight entertainment miserable.
> hypocrisy of organised religion

- There is a local religious festival

- People prepare delicious meals according to the local culinary tradition.

- The Catholic church doesn't have any rules, which would restrict the consumption of the prepared meals.

I fail to see the hypocrisy.
If you want to start a discussion about the ethics of eating food, you surely find a more suited place.
Not a realtime os though
It doesn't have much to do with "China being an actual country".

Germany alone is also an actual country and the trains inside it's borders are super slow.

In China and Japan, many long distance trains get 320 km/h average speed!

The German ICE "machine" could theoretically also do that speed but there are barely any tracks where this is possible, so the average speed is around 3x slower.

In France and Italy it is much better. TGV and Frecciarossa trains usually operate much closer to their specced speeds.
This article is about men.
How do them compare with Capellini [1]? They have a name connected to the idea of "Threads of God": "capelli d'angelo" or "angel hair" in English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capellini
Individual gains, collectivized losses
Nope, this isn’t being driven by any shareholders. The lawyers want a big payday and found a client of convenience. If they win they’ll ask the count for a percentage of the value of the judgment using an innumerate formula for value.
^this guy has motion
I started professionally programming using VB back in the 90's, I remember how amazing it was at the time to use an IDE with autocomplete and a visual debugger coming from just doing basic on say the Commodore. I was never a C or assembly programmer, I understood it but everything I wanted to do I could do much faster in a higher level language in an IDE.

This was back when Windows was finally getting good (Win95) and I was not familiar with Unix at all. All of this seemed like the obvious progression from text base UI's to GUI's.

So for me it has been very natural to use autocomplete and expect to just attach a debugger and inspect running code and even modify it (VB allowed edit and continue) which is still a rare thing today that I miss.

Also using a mouse to move around the code base and inspect it just like using a GUI to use the computer. Because of this I have never developed a strong keyboard only ability, I expect a mouse to be available.

I remember getting into web development and having to step backwards into a language that wasn't really typed and no real IDE's that could autocomplete an interactive debugger, back to print debugging and text searching. Eventually the browser developer tools caught up but the JS language was pretty difficult to accurately autocomplete and navigate / refactor properly at a code level with an IDE.

Was fun to watch all the JS devs get excited over Typescript because autocomplete and refactor now worked reliably. For me having a language with real types the IDE can understand was the way it's supposed to be.

It seems like it's how you got started that determines your preference. If you were a Unix guy you liked the command line and TUI's and everything was about wrangling things at a text level, everything is a file and just a stream of bytes. If you were a Windows or Mac person then it was GUI's and mouse interaction and it was more about widgets and objects and IDE's.

I can appreciate both sides, I would like to be stronger in the command line and keyboard but how I got started strong influences the tooling I prefer and I am sort of set in my ways now, I suspect that is pretty typical.
By price? So only the rich kids can go? Sounds really the opposite attitude than what I hear from CCC folks
Nice article, but let's not just skid past the subtle nominative determinism of the first peer commenter, evolutionary biologist and animal behaviorist, Mallory Wiper, who just had to take a swipe at the first comment. Of course, she may have originally been the rearmost comment, and was just moved to the front of the queue, naturally.
Vector in Production: Effective Data Collection and Transmission
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Let me know if you have any feedback! Hope it's useful.
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It’s the no sleep thing compounded with stress of an extra dependent. I love being a father, but that first year in particular was tough.
I have the standalone unit and other than the painfully slow 100mbit Ethernet that's too slow to upload ISOs and which also doesn't work with many modern switches - it's really nice for the price.

The problem with a pcie one for me is that modern motherboards suffer from having hardly any PCIe ports - and when they do they're mashed in close to each other essentially making one useless if you have a decent GPU.
I'm not a huge fan of borders and passports and the like and in favour of practical solutions to reduce it like the EU border free travel. Also things like in the UK there is no obligation to have any sort of ID. Occasionally the government try to bring in an ID card but people revolt.

If it was down to me I'd have fairly free travel within the developed world - say EU, UK, USA, maybe Japan, and limited term work permits for people coming from less well off countries.
Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner
> I always wondered is how good it actually is.

For me "gamey mutton broth" is all I need to know. Yuck. Anything but mutton.
They opened the standalone unit, assuming this will be also?
> It didn't' work, that's not a crime. //

Well yh, when you're being paid a normal wage. In USA that sounds like maybe $200k for proven senior engineers? So, just return anything they took above that - which I'm guessing is going to round to the full wage.

Honestly, I don't really understand why the people are taking so much more than their share even when successful.
Live life, give it a go.
See the CO2 fertilization effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_fertilization_effect
That scenario could be made of very long stretch of times. Gold is a shelter value (or so was I told). Hard to use as a currency (you need to buy small parts that can be divided easily - coins or ingots) and hard to hide/protect.
Ostriches weigh about the same as adult humans.

Birds do have a rump (the part of them behind the legs) which perhaps serves a similar function to human buttocks.
Destructible Environments in Videogames
Viral post discovery tool for Bluesky
TrendSpotter helps users find all high-engagement posts for a given keyword that were created in the last 24 hours or less on Bluesky Social.

Use it to:
- find posts getting a lot of attention and join those conversations
- research news stories, products, websites, etc
- understand what kinds of posts are going viral for a given topic/niche
There’s a few more than three.

https://leanpub.com/cppinitbook

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/8nn4fw/for...
Can a dishwasher remove the dirt that's inside the keyboard, beneath the keycaps?
Silicon Valley's Influence on the White House
> From a quick look at the code, so far you can achieve the same with exiftool if you mount those sources as local drives. There isn't much else yet, but it wouldn't take a lot of work to hook this up with a vision models to add some labels or metadata.

Thanks for walking me through it, and for the handy example with exiftool. I like that you're doing this with command-line tools because you can see what's going on more easily. I think it's more accessible than requiring a Java + Gradle build environment.

> 1) field of view + rough estimation of lens data can be computable directly from perspective cues

> 2) this can be narrowed down to specific objectives

Really! That is so cool, I wasn't aware that kind of thing was possible. I never write down the lenses I've used (because lazy) so extracting that kind of metadata from the image would be an interesting exercise.
I would really like a _very_ detailed explanation of how AI is evolving instead of just having more computation power and shortcuts applied.
Surely you didn't memorize the entire 3rd party ecosystem of a programming language?
It can give you answers in minutes. Go to habitfast.netlify.app - just note that the name is "Habit Fast". It is simple and minimalistic. Try it and track what you must do every day. First, look at your progress on the first day - did you improve? If yes, you might see even more improvement over a month because we have many features to keep you motivated, including streak analytics and more.
Not math but I just learned alkali is the word for "ash" in Arabic.
which help us run on top of the dinosaur bones that are so old they have petrified over the millions upon millions of years they have lain there.

It's a mystery! ;-)
You are right that 8 hours for 1000 km is rubbish for a train.

Modern trains can do that in 3 hours, on conventional rail (no maglev needed).

The trains can do that already for 40 years (the ICE could to 400 km/h in 1988):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express

The problem is that in contrast to China, Japan, France, and Italy, Germany does not build straight tracks that allow that speed.

If you put a Chinese straight train track between Berlin and Paris, the travel time would be 3 hours, without sacrificing comfort.
The difference isn't subtle. This is perfectly sharp and clear on a CRT, but blurry on an OLED:

https://www.testufo.com/
Birds are not mammals.
Just because it is accessible to you does not mean it is accessible to everyone else. HTTPS has many failure modes which make it unreliable for essential access, such as time mismatches, certificate expirations, ssl version mismatches, etc. Security and privacy are important, and they are also not absolute. Sometimes the risk is outweighed by the importance of being able to access essential resources and reading material.
Birds knee joints are human ankle joints.
You have a narrow view of "proper hacker talks" and the purpose of the Chaos Computer Club. The congress is representative for what is of interest for CCC members.
Create Your Free AI Assistant
Bird knees are in the same direction as all other knees, the articulation you are thinking about is the ankle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_feet_and_legs

In a lot of mammals too the knee is "hidden"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=horse+hind+legs+anatomy&t=fpas&iax...
Another decentralized feed alternative: https://github.com/really-simple-decentralized-syndication
Well nobody is saying to incinerate the originals
True but, IMHO, a lot of the higher level task should be able to handle it. I guess you can have a simple real time IC to handle the flight envelope to provide stable flight and then use the iPhone to do the advanced operations. For example, if you are building a drone that is mapping the environment and follows you through a bike ride, does it really matter if the 3D environment it creates for autonomous navigation is slightly off? You can continuously compensate for it, stick with moving averages and avoid extreme moves.
China's CATL launches EV chassis, flagging safety as top selling point
The email he shared that he was sending to Sony was obnoxious “this is a chance for some wicked awesome free PR for Sony..” so it is kind of no wonder they stopped talking to him. Other than that, he never said he was doing it for the good of humanity or anything, he just wanted it and found a way to make it happen, I admire the pluck.
> Where does one palpate urgency?

Ask an urologist!
Not ... even that interesting?
If people are interested it was featured hear on HN a day or two ago but Obsidian released an extension called Obsidian Clipper that can save webpages in markdown format.
https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-clipper
I am going to guess your group of friends was quite the outlier. Or you considered a ton of people to be your friends.
> [citation needed]

All saver tickets in German (which is what most people use), and most TGV tickets (even non saver) are bound to specific trains at specific times.

https://www.bahn.de/faq/was-bedeutet-zugbindung

The UK is the odd exception here. But it also doesn't have real high speed trains, except from the one that leaves the country, where hopping off is impossible (unless you want to end up in a dark tunnel under the sea and be arrested afterwards).
The counter agreement often made is that if there was a better alternative to this then, like a company run by people who understand the fundamentals of what they actually make, then they would outcompete all these lazy bones, self-serving business people. My observation however has been that in fact many such companies have come, they have indeed dominated their competitors, only to later become infiltrated by the same business types they had once trounced.

It’s frustrating to simultaneously be able to perceive this and also do nothing about it. There are a lot of Juliuses out there. Still work doesn’t have to be one’s whole identity. If one happens to be there at the right place and at the right time then awesome. They probably got the experience of their lifetime. But if not then it’s ok! I think we can all do work that we’re proud of still, and it’s probably best to not get too worked up over this stuff. I don’t think Julius has that same option.
I take it you're not used to people whose primary language is French (or Italian, Spanish or Romanian) writing in English?
I don't think anything you said disagreed with me. I agree giving more time could've resulted in a good outcome. But he didn't do it in the time he was given and they didn't want to give him more time. It's just what it is. My point is that without more information it is hard to know if it'd have worked out.

It's very appealing for an engineer as myself to root for an engineer CEO that comes back and turns it around, I know it's a story that everyone would love, that's why when the defence is only that, I suspect that people may just be romanticizing the situation the same way I would / do.

I'm also not sure someone saying "I need X time" means the board needs to treat this as some holy proclamation. A lot of the CEO job is also convincing the board and the markets that the change is coming and at 3.5 out of 5 years I guess the board still wasn't convinced and the markets certainly don't seem to be pricing in a turnaround.
Owning company stock or getting a salary doesn't really matter in this case. Both are compensation.

People also get up in arms on stock grants. Look at the recent Musk case. Regardless of what you think of Musk, any TSLA investor should be ecstatic with what he did with the stock. He took most of his salary in stock and now they want it back. The main reason the numbers sound big is because the stock grew so much.
My current theory is that long term plastic exposure is what is driving the obesity epidemic.